Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 11:19:39 -0500 (EST) From: John <papalia@UDel.Edu> To: "H. Jared Agnew" <jagnew@mba.dgsys.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing drives Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.10003081117520.27480-100000@copland.udel.edu> In-Reply-To: <200003081452.JAA06183@mba.dgsys.com>
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> Config : > One 450M IDE > One 9.1G USCSI2 > > Problem : > I just added the 9.1G drive to the system. I am fairly sure that boot > loader could boot the 9.1G drive as it gives me the option to boot from > it. I can not however figure out how to make the 9.1G drive bootable. I > tried using (freebsd's) fdisk to set the first partition active, I also > installed my kernel on the partition. I think what it comes down to > is the boot straping, but I have searched the mail archives and can't > find any posts with my situation. You have to do a few things to make your SCSI dive bootable: 1) Make sure that your BIOS allows booting off a SCSI device. If not, I believe you'll have to disconnect the IDE drive to make it work (someone check me on this). 2) If you SCSI card has an on-board BIOS (like the Adaptec 2940UW or similar), make sure that you have it configured to allow a boot device, and set that to scsi id 0. 3) Make sure your scsi drive is set to id0. Check all that, and see where we go from there. --John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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